Nuclear power in Russia

Türkiye aims to have 7,200 megawatts of nuclear power by 2035, Energy Minister Alparslan Bayraktar has said, adding that without nuclear energy the country is unlikely to meet its 2052 net-zero target.

"We need to build two more reactors until 2035 in order to achieve this target," he told daily Milliyet.

Construction of Turkey's first nuclear power plant is being delayed by Germany's Siemens Energy withholding key parts required for it to be built by Russia's Rosatom, which is seeking alternatives in China, Turkey's energy minister said on Wednesday.

Ukraine remains committed to purchasing two Russian VVER(WWER-1000)-1000 nuclear reactors currently stored in Bulgaria, according to Ukrainian Minister of Energy German Galushchenko. The reactors are intended to expand the Khmelnytskyi Nuclear Power Plant in western Ukraine.

Türkiye is keen to expand its cooperation with Russian nuclear company Rosatom in the Sinop Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) project, Energy Minister Alparslan Bayraktar has said.

The Akkuyu nuclear power plant that is being built in the southern province of Mersin, is giving a strong boost to the local economy, according to experts and a local business leader.

Since the start of the construction work, more than 500 new businesses have been registered with the Silifke Chamber of Commerce and Industry, said Nurettin Kaynak, its president.

Rosatom has announced that it manufactured and dispatched a shipment of nuclear fuel mock-ups for the first unit of the Akkuyu Nuclear Power Plant.

The fuel dummies are shipped together with mock-ups of control rods and tools for incoming inspections of nuclear fuel, the Russian company said in a statement.

All the eyes of the world are focused on the largest nuclear power plant on the soil of Europe - Zaporizhzhia, which is controlled by Russian forces. If "something breaks", the consequences will be enormous.

Russia's largest lender Sberbank will provide loans of $800 million for the construction of Turkey's first nuclear power plant (NPP), Akkuyu, the bank announced on Nov. 17.

The seven-year loan will be provided to the project company Akkuyu Nuclear JSC, a subsidiary of Russia's State Atomic Energy Corporation Rosatom, according to Sberbank.

The first unit of Turkey's first nuclear power plant will be taken online in 2023 in accordance with the initial planning, Dmitriy Romanets, the deputy director of construction works at the Akkuyu Nuclear Power Plant (NPP), told Demirören News Agency.

The construction works for the first nuclear power plant of Turkey is continuing as planned and its first unit will start operations in 2023, Energy and Natural Resources Minister Fatih Dönmez has said.

"In Akkuyu, things are running as planned," Dönmez said during a webinar organized by Sabancı Üniversity's Istanbul International Center for Energy and Climate (IICEC) yesterday.